Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Indeed. It is almost the same response I received then, word for word. I am comparing the response I received in October with the one provided to the Minister of State. I do not direct this at him, but very clearly and in spite of all the talk, there is no commitment by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to move on this. There has been no movement in six months on this issue, which I was told was a priority. I beg the Acting Chairperson's indulgence on this to ask how we can get an answer. I respect the Minister of State communicating the problem that is there, but the circulated reply is literally a cut-and-paste of the one I received six months ago. It therefore very clear the Department has done nothing on this. I ask the Minister of State to take that back to it. There has been no progress whatsoever in spite of the commitments. I will look to raise it later on the Order of Business, but frankly this is disgraceful. There was not even an effort to try to jig up or restructure the answer. Paragraphs have literally been lifted from the answer I received last October. As far as this House is concerned, that is not acceptable.